Shiona said,
I've recently renewed my interest in organic
gardening and have started collecting seaweed from a
nearby beach to make a liquid plant feed with as it is
meant to be the best kind of fertilizer due to high
mineral content. However I would imagine considerable
research would need to go into checking the purity of
any local seawater before deciding to drink it and of
course there is the issue of how to remove the salt.
I met a man a few years ago who was harvesting seaweed
from the ocean and then soaking it in water (to my
chagrin, plain tap city water). He would then strain
out all the water. He was selling this water to golf
clubs to spray on their grass (which needs to be nice
and green to play golf on). He could not make it fast
enough. The golf club grass grew faster, greener and
lasted longer than with regular fertilizer.
Interestingly, he made no effort to remove the salt or
in any other way purify this seaweed water.
I've also been investigating the supposed benefits
of ingesting Bentonite clay. I've used it a few times
in colon cleanses (mixed with psyllium), but upon
looking at the information at this site,
http://www.eytonsearth.org have decided to buy in
bulk some calcium bentonite and explore not only more
regular internal use, but external use in baths, which
are claimed to be very therapeutic and assist the body
in removing toxins and heavy metals.
It is my understanding that bentonite clay contains
minerals and certain unique molecules that are
entirely missing from all commercially-grown food, and
nearly all organically-grown food as well. I buy mine
in bulk quantities right from the folks who mine it in
Saskatchewan.
I did a colon cleanse a few years ago following Dr
Richard Anderson's Cleanse and Purify protocol, and
using his Arise and Shine liquid minerals. In his
book he affirms the importance of PH testing before a
cleanse and suggests that a healthy morning urine
sample taken after eating acid forming foods the
previous day, ought to show an acidic reading of 5.7
to 6 (ideally 5.6 or below), proving that the body has
enough alkaline mineral supply to remove the acids. If
the urine test after eating acid forming foods the
previous day shows a very high alkaline level, then
this shows that mineral depletion is occurring. If
over 6.8 then there are no mineral reserves left and
the kidneys are having to excrete ammonia into the
urine in order to deal with expulsion of the acids.
He says that mineral depletion occurs from consuming
too much acid-forming foods after which the body has
to steal minerals from elsewhere in the body and that
this category of people often gain weight as the body
is diluting the acids with lymph and storing them or
they may lose weight and suffer from various digestive
disorders.
Dr. Anderson shows a better grasp of pH than I
normally see. The trouble with the above statements is
that they are too simplistic. He may understand
better, but be simplifying it for public
consideration. The reason that I test pH over a 6-day
period is so that I can see what the body is doing
inside. Because of the wide-spread phenomenon of
fluctuating pH, a single test is almost worthless. It
is quite common for me to see someone who is usually,
for example, slightly acidic (say, 6.2), who every
once in a while has what we call a spike, where
their pH (either urine or saliva) jumps up to 7.8 or
higher, then on the next test returns to the clients
normal 6.2 again. When that happens, I disregard the
spike because it is not representative of the clients
true metabolic condition. When you consider that the
variations of a persons pH fluctuations (how much, how
often, in which direction or even IF there are
fluctuations) represent different dynamics occurring
in the body, then establishing what is a healthy
morning urine pH is overly-simplistic. A healthy
morning pH compared to what? Would the diet of the
person qualify what is a healthy morning pH? And what
if the person eats the same thing consistently, but
has wide variations of pH? What if they eat garbage as
a lifestyle? Is the same pH reading healthy for the
person who eats garbage as the person who eats
macrobiotic, or Vegan or fruitarian or whatever is in
front of them?
Fluctuating pH is an indication of demineralization,
the more the fluctuation, the deeper the
demineralization. Some of my clients have pH readings
over 6-days that jump around with no pattern to them.
Some days one extreme, some days the other extreme,
some days in the middle, different from one morning or
evening to the next. The idea that the previous days
diet affects the next mornings pH readings is only
true in a demineralized body. People who have
addressed the level of demineralization in their body
(not a quick and easy process), and have filled the
gaps, so-to-speak, find the same, balanced pH each
day, whatever they eat or even whether they eat. This
is the goal, balanced bio-chemistry.
The problem here is that
